The Power of Silence by Kenny Colum;

Author:Kenny, Colum;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Routledge

This New Zealand example is a reminder of the fact that silencing and prejudice can function passively when we make no effort to hear certain voices in our community, perhaps because we unconsciously rate them as insignificant, troubled, or disturbing.

Over and beyond general experiences of prejudice in the wider world, an additional impediment to speaking out may arise within the immigrant’s own migrant community. Gill instances the case of some South Asian women living in London, with particular reference to their culture’s concepts of honour (izzat) and shame (sharam). She writes,

Fear of bringing shame on the family routinely acts to silence women about their experiences of violence and discourages them from resisting such coercive control. The social significance of female shame is also reflected in the prevalence of victim blaming, consistently identified in women’s experiences (p. 476).

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